# Bluehost deployment

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluehost-deployment/146664>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 23, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluehost-deployment/146664 "2008-08-23T21:17:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluehost-deployment/146664/1 "2008-08-23T21:17:40Z")

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Hello friend,  
I need to deploy my application on bluehost server. But everwhere i am  
getting an example of hosting using subdomain. for for access site i  
need to  
do something [http://subdomain.mysitename.com](http://subdomain.mysitename.com) instead of tht i want  
something  
like [http://www.mysitename.com](http://www.mysitename.com)… and i don’t know its quite very  
confusing  
to host. please help me with proper example in short.

thanks regards  
abhishek shukla

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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluehost-deployment/146664/2 "2008-08-28T21:00:58Z")

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Abhishek shukla wrote:

> Hello friend,  
> I need to deploy my application on bluehost server. But everwhere i am  
> getting an example of hosting using subdomain. for for access site i  
> need to do something [http://subdomain.mysitename.com](http://subdomain.mysitename.com) instead of tht i  
> want something like [http://www.mysitename.com](http://www.mysitename.com)… and i don’t know its  
> quite very confusing to host. please help me with proper example in short.
> 
> thanks regards  
> abhishek shukla

I think the procedure is the same as for a sub-domain, except you need  
to create a symlink for the main site’s root. Take a look at the last  
step on this page: [http://wiki.radiantcms.org/How\_To\_Deploy\_on\_Bluehost](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/How_To_Deploy_on_Bluehost)

It might help you.

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
8/29/2008 | 3:00 AM.

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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluehost-deployment/146664/3 "2008-08-28T22:15:26Z")

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If your rails app is in the following directory: ~/rails-apps/myapp  
Then the following should do the trick:

$ mv ~/public\_html ~/original\_public\_html  
$ ln -s ~/rails-apps/myapp/public ~/public\_html